Today’s Links: FedEx, Kobe and sex hotlines

“The anti-pet brigade, angered over noise and mess from domestic cats and dogs, is lobbying the authorities for tougher restrictions on pet ownership, as the number of people keeping them without a license increases.”

“FedEx’s domestic China service will flow from its hub at Hangzhou Xiaoshan International Airport in east China’s Zhejiang province. … Domestic carrier Okay Airways will provide air transportation, using three Boeing 737 jets.” Okay!

“The typical Chinese restaurant menu is a sea of nutritional no-nos, a consumer group has found. A plate of General Tso’s chicken, for example, is loaded with about 40 percent more sodium and more than half the calories an average adult needs for an entire day.”

“A Chinese man bought carry-on wine and spirits worth a record 23,000 euros (15,600 pounds) at Paris airport’s duty-free shop — including a bottle of 1806 cognac that might have slipped through the fingers of Emperor Napoleon.”

“FedEx will launch the next-business-day domestic express service May 28, with time-definite service to 19 cities and day-definite service to more than 200 cities across the country, the company said.”

“While the local media could not publish about the most famous house in Chongqing, the stories kept on spreading on the internet, often hardly based on any facts. But that forced national media like CCTV to bring the story and Venture160 did a great job in translating the interview.”